Google Firebase misconfiguration exposes data of 20k+ Android users

By Sudais Asif Up to 24000 Android apps may be at risk because of certain misconfiguration on... This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Google Firebase misconfiguration exposes data of 20k+ Android users...

Fake Coronavirus apps hit Android & iOS users with spyware, adware

By Deeba Ahmed Cybercriminals are trying every trick up their sleeve to benefit from the Coronavirus pandemic and... This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Fake Coronavirus apps hit Android & iOS users with spyware, adware...

Exclusive — Hacker Steals Over 218 Million Zynga 'Words with Friends' Gamers Data

A Pakistani hacker who previously made headlines earlier this year for selling almost a billion user records stolen from nearly 45 popular online services has now claimed to have hacked the popular mobile social game company Zynga Inc. With a current market capitalization of over $5 billion, Zyng...

Device Hopping Shoppers Drive Up Bounce Rates Leading Into Holiday 2019

Executive Summary In 2018, Akamai reported for the first time that shoppers used mobile devices more than desktops for all the major peak traffic events we measured. Interestingly, they often don't complete their purchase on a mobile device. If the most recently concluded back-to-school shopping...

Adware-Ridden Apps in Google Play Infect 30 Million Android Users

More than 50 malicious apps have been discovered on the Google Play app marketplace, peddling adware to millions of Android victims. The 50 adware apps, which have been since removed, include fitness, photoshopping and gaming apps, and were installed a total of 30 million times, researchers at...

Android Users: Check This Facebook Location Privacy Setting ASAP

Android users can now stop Facebook from tracking their location when they aren't using the Facebook app...

This Week in Security News: Adware and Ransomware

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about an adware that disguised itself as different apps and monitors mobile devices. Also, learn more about the different ransomware...

Apps on smartphones are selling and sharing our location data 24/7

By Waqas It's no surprise that the apps we download on our smartphones are tracking our movements and also transferring the information to third parties without our consent. Last year it was Google caught collecting location data of Android users even if their device's location service was off th...

How to attach files in Secure Mail keeping the policy restricted

In Secure Mail/WorxMail versions 10.3.5 and later, Android users can't attach images directly from the Gallery app when the Inbound document exchange Open-in policy is set to Restricted. If you want to keep this policy set to Restricted but still allow users to add photos from the Gallery, follow...

Drive-by cryptomining campaign targets millions of Android users

Malvertising and online fraud through forced redirects and Trojanized apps—to cite the two most common examples—are increasingly plaguing Android users. In many cases, this is made worse by the fact that people often don't use web filtering or security applications on their mobile devices. A...

Fake WhatsApp On Google Play Store Downloaded By Over 1 Million Android Users

Cybercriminals are known to take advantage of everything that's popular among people in order to spread malware, and Google's official Play Store has always proved no less than an excellent place for hackers to get their job done. Yesterday some users spotted a fake version of the most popular...

Huawei Android User cannot Launch Secure Mail on Home Screen

Partial Android user cannot launch Secure Mail on desktop, error "This app requires a newer version of Secure Hub.Please update Secure Hub to run this app": Besides, Secure Mail can be launched via Secure Hub...

Error: "Your sign on has expired. Please sign on again to continue." When Accessing XenMobile Store

Error message on SecureHub while accessing WorxStore "Your sign on has expired. Please sign on again to continue.". Screenshot below. Note : This is affecting both iOS and Android users. Error Message in SecureHub Logs "Secure Hub","WARNING 3","AuthControllerImpl:getKeyManager is going to return...

Marcher Trojan Finds New Android Victims Targeting Porn Sites

In the security world where Trojans remake themselves more often than a fading Hollywood actor, the Marcher Trojan is no exception. The 3-year-old Marcher has found new relevance targeting Android users visiting porn sites, according to a report from security firm Zscaler. Over the past month,...

Beauty operators 4G network vulnerabilities, affecting all Android users-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

CERT has released a vulnerability description, major U.S. wireless operators Verizon Wireless and AT&T network vulnerability, it will access the network in all Android versions including Android 6.0, aka marshmallow user security and privacy caused the damage. May cause tens of thousands of Andro...

Koler Android Ransomware Infrastructure Complex and Agile

While the Koler ransomware may be a simplistic money-generating malware scam, the infrastructure standing up its campaigns is anything but. Researchers at Kaspersky Lab published a report today that not only explained details of how the attackers—possibly the group behind the Reveton...

Google Play App Permissions Privacy, Security Concerns

Google’s revamped app permissions for Google Play are not being well received by Android users. Reddit threads are rife with adjectives such as “stupid” and “dangerous,” primarily because Google’s attempt to simplify permissions granted to automatically updated applications may in fact expose use...

Stanford Researchers Find Connecting Metadata With User Names is Simple

One of the key tenets of the argument that the National Security Agency and some lawmakers have constructed to justify the agency’s collection of phone metadata is that the information it’s collecting, such as phone numbers and length of call, can’t be tied to the callers’ names. However, some...

Moxie Marlinspike on TextSecure CyanogenMod integration

Moxie Marlinspike Moxie Marlinspike has published landmark research on SSL vulnerabilities, taken on certificate authorities and even built an alternative to CAs as we know them today called Convergence. But now that government surveillance and online privacy have been elevated to mainstream...

Stanford Metaphone Project Aims to Show Dangers of Metadata Collection

When the first NSA surveillance story broke in June, about the agency’s collection of phone metadata from Verizon, most people likely had never heard the word metadata before. Even some security and privacy experts weren’t sure what the term encompassed, and now a group of security researchers at...